Error resilient video coding using reversible variable length codes (RVLCs)

ABSTRACT

Video compression coding with partitioning of data into motion vector data and texture data with reversible Golomb-Rice type codes for the data. Resynchronization markers separate the data types, and the reversible coding permits decoding in both forward and backward directions to minimize data discarded due to errors.

CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS

Copending U.S. patent application Ser. No. 09/019,787, filed Feb. 6, 1998, discloses related subject matter. This application is a division of U.S. Ser. No. 09/040,676, filed Mar. 18, 1998, now U.S. Pat. No. 6,304,607, which claims benefit to U.S. Ser. No. 60/041,398, filed Mar. 18, 1999.

BACKGROUND

The present application relates to information encoding for transmission over noisy channels and storage, and more particularly to error resilient encoding.

Two common approaches to the mitigation of errors arising during the transmission of data over noisy channels exist: Automatic Retransmission Request (ARQ) and Forward Error Correction (FEC). ARQ type of mitigation typically would not be feasible in multicast or real-time applications such as video because of intolerable time delays or a lack of feedback channel. In such cases, a decoder can only decode the error corrupted bitstream, protected to an extent by error correction encoding, and must create from such bitstream. FEC provides mitigation by error correcting codes (e.g., Reed-Solomon). However, uncorrectable errors require further mitigated approaches.

In general, commonly used video compression methods have block-based motion compensation to remove temporal redundancy. Motion compensation methods encode only (macro)block motion vectors and the corresponding quantized residuals (texture); and variable length coding (VLC) of the motion vectors and residual increases coding efficiency. However, variable length coding often are highly susceptible to transmission channel errors and a decoder easily loses synchronization with the encoder when uncorrectable errors arise. The predictive coding methods, such as motion compensation, make matters much worse because the errors in one video frame quickly propagate across the entire video sequence and rapidly degrade the decoded video quality.

The typical approach of such block-based video compression methods to uncorrectable errors includes the steps of error detection (e.g., out-of-range motion vectors, invalid VLC table entry, or invalid number of residuals in a block), resynchronization of the decoder with the encoder, and error concealment by repetition of previously transmitted correct data in place of the uncorrectable data. For example, video compressed using MPEG1-2 has a resynchronization marker (start code) at the start of each slice of macroblocks (MBs) of a frame, and an uncorrectable error results in all of the data between correctly decoded resynchronization markers being discarded. This implies degradation in quality of the video stream, especially for predictive compression methods such as MPEG.

This compressed video is typically coded using Variable Length Code (VLC) tables such as Huffman codes. When the compressed video data is transmitted over noisy communication channels, it is corrupted by channel errors. VLC tables prove to be particularly sensitive to bit errors. This is because bit errors can make one codeword be incorrectly interpreted to be another codeword of a different length and hence the error is not detected. This makes the decoder lose synchronization with the encoder. Although the error may finally be detected due to an invalid VLC table entry, usually the location in the bitstream where the error is detected is not the same as the location where the error occurred. Hence, when the decoder detects an error, it has to seek the next resynchronization marker and discard all the data between this and the previous resynchronization marker. Thus, even a single bit error can sometimes result in a loss of a significant amount of data, and this is a problem of the known coding schemes.

Golomb-Rice codes (S. W. Golomb, “Run-length encodings,” IEEE Trans. Inf. Theory, vol. IT-12, pp.399-401, July 1966 and R. F. Rice, “some practical universal noiseless coding techniques,” Tech. Rep. JPL-79-22, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., March 1979) have been applied to lossless image compression; see M. J. Weinberger, G. Seroussi, and G. Sapiro, “LOCO-I: A low complexity, context based lossless image compression algorithm,” Proc. 1996 IEEE Data Comp. Conf., Snowbird, Utah, pp. 140-149, April, 1996.

These video compression and decompression methods may be implemented on special integrated circuits or on programmable digital signal processors or microprocessors.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION

The present invention uses reversible VLC (RVLC) tables based on Golomb-Rice codes to alleviate the error problems in motion compensated compressed video such as MPEG. These RVLC tables have the property that they can be uniquely decoded both in the forward and the backward (reverse) directions. This property enables a decoder to better isolate the location of the error and minimize the amount of data that needs to be discarded.

Preferred embodiments present different kinds RVLCs for each of (1) motion header data (COD+MCBPC) (for INTRA and INTER frames), (2) motion vector data, (3) INTRA DCT coefficient data. and (4) INTER DCT coefficient data.

This has the advantage of better performance with efficient codes.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

The drawings are heuristic for clarity.

FIGS. 1-4 shows error detection with reversible coding.

FIG. 5 shows syntax for fixed length code portions

FIGS. 6a-c shows a bitstream syntax for data partitioning.

FIG. 7 shows a bitstream syntax for data and header partitioning.

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS

Data Partitioning

Enhanced error concealment properties for motion compensated compression, such as MPEG, can be achieved by using data partitioning. Consider a “video packet” to consist of the data between two consecutive resynchronization markers. In a data partitioning approach, the motion data and the texture (DCT) data within each of the video packets are separately encoded in the bitstream . Another resynchronization word (Motion Resync. Word) is imbedded between the motion data and the DCT data to signal the end of the motion data and the beginning of the DCT data. This data partitioning allows the decoder to use the motion data even if the DCT data is corrupted by undetectable errors. This provides advantages including partial recovery over uncorrectable error in a packet of compressed video data with little additional overhead. The error concealment that is made possible by the use of motion compensation by applying decoded motion vectors results in a much better decoded video quality. And this extends to object based compression in that object shape data can be separated from the motion data and texture data by a shape resynchronization word.

When using data partitioning the data within the video packet is organized to look as shown in FIGS. 6a-c: FIG. 6a shows the fields between two resynchronization markers and FIGS. 6b-c illustrate the motion data field and the texture data field in more detail by an example. In particular, the first field (“Resynch Marker”) is a resynchronization marker, the second field (“MB No.”) is the number in the frame of the first macroblock (16×16 block of pixels) in the video packet, the third field (“QP”) is the default quantization parameter used to quantize the texture data (DCT coefficients) in the video packet, the fourth field (“Motion Data”) is the motion data, the fifth field (“Motion Resynch Word”) is the resynchronization marker between the motion data and the texture data, the sixth field (“DCT Data”) is the texture data, and the last field (“Resynch Marker”) is the ending resynchronization marker. Note that the resynchronization marker is taken to have 23 successive 0s, and that these resynchronization words can be created by a search process as described in copending U.S. patent application Ser. No. 09/019,787, filed Feb. 6, 1998.

FIG. 6b shows the motion data field consisting of a COD field, an MCBPC field, and an MV field for each the macroblocks in the packet. The COD field indicates whether the macroblock is coded or skipped (COD=0 macroblock is coded, COD=1 macroblock is skipped). The MCBPC field indicates (1) the mode of the macroblock and (2) which of the chrominance blocks in the macroblock are coded and which are skipped: the mode indicates whether there the current macroblock is coded INTRA (no motion compensation), INTER (motion compensated with one 16×16 motion vector), or INTER4V (motion compensated with four 8×8 motion vectors). Of course, if COD indicates the macroblock is not coded, then the MCBPC field is not present. The MV field is the actual motion vector data; either one vector or four vectors. Again, if COD indicates that the macroblock is not coded, then the MV field is not present.

FIG. 6c shows the texture (DCT Data) field as consisting of a CBPY field and a DQUANT field for each of the macroblocks followed by the DCT data for each of the macroblocks. The CBPY field indicates which of the luminance blocks of the macroblock are coded and which are skipped. The DQUANT field indicates the differential increment to the default quantizer value (QP) to compute the quantization value for the macroblock. The DCT fields are the run length encoded quantized DCT coefficient values of the macroblock.

Reversible VLC With Header

The preferred embodiment syntax of the bitstream within a video packet with headers and data using RVLC is shown in FIG. 7. The Resynch Marker, MB No., QP, and Motion Resynchr Word fields are as in FIG. 6a; the Motion Vector Data field consists of the motion vector data MV1, MV2, . . . MVn as in FIG. 6b; the DCT Header Data field consists of the CBPY1, DQUANT1, . . . , CBPYn, DQUANTn of FIG. 6c; and the DCT Data field consists of the DCT1, DCT2, . . . , DCTn also of FIG. 6c.

The Header Data field consists of one RVLC entry for the combined COD and MCBPC data for each macroblock (see FIG. 6b), and the Header Resynchronization Word is a uniquely decoded word similar to the Motion Resynchronizatin Word. Thus sequences of RVLC entries occur in the Header Data, Motion Vector Data, DCT Header Data, and DCT Data fields; of course each field has its own RVLC table as detailed below.

If an error is detected by the decoder while decoding any of the RVLCs, the decoder seeks the next resynchronization word, (either Header Resync. Word or Motion Resync. Word or the Resync. Marker). It then decodes the RVLC data backwards. Now, one of the four possible cases shown below can occur and the decoder decides to discard the appropriate part of the bitstream shown shaded in the figures below.

Note that during the backward decoding, in addition to the usual checks for valid data, the decoder also flags the bitstream as being in error if the forward decoded and the backward decoded data do not match despite both directions being decoded without apparent errors.

1) Separated error detected points: MBs whose data are free from errors are used. The data between the error detected points in the forward decode and in the backward decode are discarded (shaded part in FIG. 1).

2) Crossed error detected points: MBs whose data are free from errors are used. The data between the error detected points in the forward decode and in the backward decode are discarded (dark part in FIG. 2).

3) Error is detected in one direction: The MB whose data is corrupted (shaded part in FIG. 3) is discarded. The symmetrical situation of no error in the forward direction but an error in the reverse direction is treated similarly.

4) Error is detected in the same MB: Only the corrupted MB (shaded part in FIG. 4) is discarded.

In all of the cases above using the RVLC and the reverse (backward) decoding, the decoder is able to salvage a significantly larger part of the bitstream that is not in error.

Design of the RVLCs

The preferred embodiment parameterized RVLCs have identical code length distributions to previously known, non-reversible VLCs that are known to be near-optimal for probability density functions (pdfs) that occur in coding of image data. The RVLCs presented are parameterized to allow them to be adapted to match a wide range of pdfs, and enable the advantages of two-way decoding while retaining the efficiency of traditional (non-reversible) variable length codes.

Begin with a reversible code with the same length distribution as GolombRice codes, which have recently been applied for coding of prediction errors in lossless image coding applications as noted in the background. Golomb-Rice codes are nearly optimal for coding of exponentially distributed non-negative integers, and describe an integer n in terms of a quotient and a remainder. For simplicity, the divisor is often chosen to be a power of 2, i.e., 2^(k), and is parameterized by k. The quotient can be arbitrarily large and is expressed using a unary representation; the remainder is bounded by the range [0,2^(k−1)] and is expressed in binary form using k bits. For example, for a Golomb-Rice code with k=2 the number 9 could be represented as 110 01. The “prefix” of the codeword, 110, identifies the quotient of 9/2² as having value 2. The “suffix”, 01, is a 2-bit binary expression of the remainder. Table 2 below gives Golomb-Rice codes for the first several integers for two choices of the parameter k.

To obtain an equivalent length reversible code, one can simply replace the prefix of each Golomb-Rice codeword with a prefix that begins and ends with a “1”, with all other bits equal to “0”. The exception to this is the prefix of length one, which is set to “0”. The suffix in the RVLC remains the same as the suffix in the corresponding Golomb-Rice code. RVLCs constructed according to these rules are shown Table 1 for k=1 and k=2, and it is clear from the table that the length distributions of the RVLCs and the corresponding Golomb-Rice codes are identical. Although it is only the prefix, as opposed to the entire codeword, that is symmetric, these codes can easily be decoded bidirectionally because the nonreversible portions of the codewords have fixed length.

In contrast with the Golomb-Rice code in which the number of codewords at each length is constant, it is also possible to construct codes in which the number of codewords. of a given length grows exponentially with length. Compression of run lengths using such codes was described in a paper by Teuhola (J.Teuhola, “A compression method for clustered bit-vectors,” Information Processing Letters, vol.7, pp308-311, October, 1978) using the term “exponential-Golomb” coding. Exp-Golomb codes are matched to pdfs having a higher peak and wider tails than typical exponential pdfs. Such a pdf is very well matched to the run-length coded data that occur in quantized image transforms. Exp-Golomb codes can be parameterized according to k, the number of bits in the suffix of the codeword. Table 2 illustrates the exp-Golomb code for k=1,2. It is possible, though less straightforward, to construct a reversible code that has the same length distribution as an exp-Golomb code. To do this again impose the constraint that the first and last bits of the prefix be “1.”. As before, the prefix of length one is set to “0”. Require that all odd-indexed bits in the prefix, with the exception of the first and last bit, be “0”. For example, in all prefixes of length 5, the third bit is “0”, and the first and fifth bits are “1”. The even-indexed bits are allowed to vary arbitrarily, allowing 2^(l−1)/2) possible prefixes of length l, where l is odd. In constructing the code, each prefix is concatenated with the 2^(k) distinct suffixes of length k. Table 2 gives an RVLC constructed according to these rules. Again, it is clear that the length distribution of the RVLC is identical to that of the corresponding nonreversible code.

TABLE 1 Parameterized Golomb-Rice Code and Reversible Golomb-Rice Code k = 1 k = 2 Golomb-Rice PRVLC Golomb-Rice PRVLC Index Prefix Suffix Prefix Suffix Prefix Suffix Prefix Suffix 0 0 0 0 0 0 00 0 00 1 0 1 0 1 0 01 0 01 2 10 0 11 0 0 10 0 10 3 10 1 11 1 0 11 0 11 4 110 0 101 0 10 00 11 00 5 110 1 101 1 10 01 11 01 6 1110 0 1001 0 10 10 11 10 7 1110 1 1001 1 10 11 11 11 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

TABLE 2 Parameterized Exp-Golomb Code and Reversible Exp-Golomb Code (the bits in the RVLC that are not subject to symmetry constraints are italicized) k = 1 k = 2 Exp-Golomb PRVLC Exp-Golomb PRVLC Index Prefix Suffix Prefix Suffix Prefix Suffix Prefix Suffix 0 0 0 0 0 0 00 0 00 1 0 1 0 1 0 01 0 01 2 100 0 101 0 0 10 0 10 3 100 1 101 1 0 11 0 11 4 101 0 111 0 100 00 101 00 5 101 1 111 1 100 01 101 01 6 11000 0 10001 0 100 10 101 10 7 11000 1 10001 1 100 11 101 11 8 11001 0 10011 0 101 00 111 00 9 11001 1 10011 1 101 01 111 01 10  11010 0 11001 0 101 10 111 10 11  11010 1 11001 1 101 11 111 11 12  11011 0 11011 0 11000 00 10001 00 13  11011 1 11011 1 11000 01 10001 01 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Design the complete codeword table as follows.

1. Make the probability table of most commonly occurring EVENTs.

2. For each k, assign codewords from the corresponding RVLC table to the EVENTs, with shorter codeword mapped to EVENT of higher probability. Then select the k, that gives the shortest average length.

Using this methodology the RVLCs were designed for each of (1) Header Data (COD+MCBPC) (for both INTRA and INTER frames), (2) Motion Vector Data, (3) INTRA frame DCT Data, and (4) INTER frame DCT Data. Use two classes of RVLCs. The first class of RVLC is used to code the header information (COD+MCBPC). One RVLC is used for the INTRA frames and one is used for the INTER frames. These are shown in Table 3 and Table 4 below.

TABLE 3 RVLC for COD + MCBPC for INTRA coded video packets RVLC for Header Data COD + MCBPC MB CBPC Codeword Length Index Type (56) (Combined) (Bits) 0 — — 1 1 1 3 00 00 2 2 3 01 0110 4 3 3 10 01110 5 4 3 11 01010 5 5 4 00 011110 6 6 4 01 010010 6 7 4 10 0111110 7 8 4 11 0100010 7 9 Stuffing — 0111111110 10 

TABLE 4 RVLC for COD + MCBPC for INTER coded video packets Proposed RVLC for Combined COD + MCBPC MB CBPC Codeword Length Index Type (56) (Combined) (Bits)  0 — — 1 1  1 0 00 010 2  2 0 01 011110 6  3 0 10 001100 6  4 0 11 0111110 7  5 1 00 0110 4  6 1 01 01111110 8  7 1 10 00111100 8  8 1 11 011111110 9  9 2 00 01110 5 10 2 01 00111100 8 11 2 10 001111100 9 12 2 11 000111000 9 13 3 00 0011100 7 14 3 01 0111111110 10  15 3 10 0011111100 10  16 3 11 000010000 9 17 4 00 0001000 7 18 4 01 0001111000 10  19 4 10 00111111100 11  20 4 11 01111111110 11  21 Stuffing — 0000110000 10 

The second class is an RVLC, which can be parameterized by a parameter k, will be used for the entropy coding of quantized DCT coefficients and also the coding of the motion vector data. Table 7 gives the code tables for the most commonly occurring EVENTs and codewords for k=1 and k=2 for the DCT efficients. In the table and generally, the last bit “s” denotes the sign of the level, “0” for positive and “1” for negative. The remaining EVENTs are coded with a fixed length code (FLC), as depicted in Error! Reference source not found. and Tables 5-6. Table 8 gives the code table for the motion vector data.

TABLE 5 FLC Table for RUN RUN CODE 0 000000 1 000001 2 000010 . . . . . . . . . . . . 63  111111

TABLE 6 FLC table for Level LEVEL CODE 0 FORBIDDEN 1 0000000 2 0000001 . . . . . . . . . . . . 127  1111111

TABLE 7 RVLCs for the DCT Coefficients. The INTRA column shall be used for INTRA luminance and the INTER column for INTER and INTRA chrominance and INTER luminance Intra Inter Index Last Run Level Last Run Level RVLC when k = 1 RVLC when k = 2 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 1s 11s 1 0 0 2 0 1 1 010s 10s 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0001 00001 ESCAPE ESCAPE 3 0 0 3 0 0 2 01110s 0100s 4 0 0 4 0 0 3 01100s 0001s 5 0 0 5 0 1 2 00110s 0101s 6 0 1 1 0 2 1 00100s 011101s 7 0 1 2 0 3 1 0111110s 011100s 8 0 2 1 0 4 1 0111100s 011001s 9 1 0 1 1 0 1 0110110s 011000s 10 0 0 6 0 0 4 0110100s 001101s 11 0 0 7 0 0 5 0011110s 001100s 12 0 0 8 0 0 6 0011100s 001001s 13 0 0 9 0 0 7 0010110s 001000s 14 0 0 10 0 1 3 0010100s 01111101s 15 0 0 11 0 1 4 011111110s 01111100s 16 0 1 3 0 2 2 011111100s 01111001s 17 0 1 4 0 3 2 011110110s 01111000s 18 0 1 5 0 4 2 011110100s 01101101s 19 0 2 2 0 5 1 011011110s 01101100s 20 0 3 1 0 5 2 011011100s 01101001s 21 0 3 2 0 6 1 011010110s 01101000s 22 0 4 1 0 7 1 011010100s 00111101s 23 0 5 1 0 8 1 001111110s 00111100s 24 0 6 1 0 9 1 001111100s 00111001s 25 0 7 1 0 10 1 001110110s 00111000s 26 0 8 1 0 11 1 001110100s 00101101s 27 1 0 2 1 0 2 001011110s 00101100s 28 1 1 1 1 1 1 001011100s 00101001s 29 1 1 2 1 2 1 001010110s 00101000s 30 1 2 1 1 3 1 001010100s 0111111101s 31 1 3 1 1 4 1 01111111110s 0111111100s 32 1 4 1 1 5 1 01111111100s 0111111001s 33 1 5 1 1 6 1 01111110110s 0111111000s 34 1 6 1 1 7 1 01111110100s 0111101101s 35 1 7 1 1 8 1 01111011110s 0111101100s 36 1 8 1 1 9 1 01111011100s 0111101001s 37 1 9 1 1 10 1 01111010110s 0111101000s 38 1 10 1 1 11 1 01111010100s 0110111101s 39 1 11 1 1 12 1 01101111110s 0110111100s 40 1 12 1 1 13 1 01101111100s 0110111001s 41 1 13 1 1 14 1 01101110110s 0110111000s 42 0 0 12 0 0 8 01101110100s 0110101101s 43 0 0 13 0 0 9 01101011110s 0110101100s 44 0 0 14 0 0 10 01101011100s 0110101001s 45 0 0 15 0 0 11 01101010110s 0110101000s 46 0 0 16 0 0 12 01101010100s 0011111101s 47 0 0 17 0 0 13 00111111110s 0011111100s 48 0 0 18 0 0 14 00111111100s 0011111001s 49 0 0 19 0 0 15 00111110110s 0011111000s 50 0 0 20 0 0 16 00111110100s 0011101101s 51 0 0 21 0 0 17 00111011110s 0011101100s 52 0 0 22 0 0 18 00111011100s 0011101001s 53 0 0 23 0 0 19 00111010110s 0011101000s 54 0 0 24 0 0 20 00111010100s 0010111101s 55 0 0 25 0 0 21 00101111110s 0010111100s 56 0 0 26 0 0 22 00101111100s 0010111001s 57 0 0 27 0 0 23 00101110110s 0010111000s 58 0 0 28 0 0 24 00101110100s 0010101101s 59 0 0 29 0 0 25 00101011110s 0010101100s 60 0 0 30 0 0 26 00101011100s 0010101001s 61 0 0 31 0 0 27 00101010110s 0010101000s 62 0 0 32 0 1 5 00101010100s 011111111101s 63 0 0 33 0 1 6 0111111111110s 011111111100s 64 0 0 34 0 1 7 0111111111100s 011111111001s 65 0 1 6 0 1 8 0111111110110s 011111111000s 66 0 1 7 0 1 9 0111111110100s 011111101101s 67 0 1 8 0 1 10 0111111011110s 011111101100s 68 0 1 9 0 1 11 0111111011100s 011111101001s 69 0 1 10 0 1 12 0111111010110s 011111101000s 70 0 1 11 0 2 3 0111111010100s 011110111101s 71 0 1 12 0 2 4 0111101111110s 011110111100s 72 0 1 13 0 2 5 0111101111100s 011110111001s 73 0 1 14 0 2 6 0111101110110s 011110111000s 74 0 1 15 0 2 7 0111101110100s 011110101101s 75 0 1 16 0 2 8 0111101011110s 011110101100s 76 0 2 3 0 3 3 0111101011100s 011110101001s 77 0 2 4 0 3 4 0111101010110s 011110101000s 78 0 2 5 0 3 5 0111101010100s 011011111101s 79 0 2 6 0 3 6 0110111111110s 011011111100s 80 0 2 7 0 4 3 0110111111100s 011011111001s 81 0 2 8 0 4 4 0110111110110s 011011111000s 82 0 3 3 0 4 5 0110111110100s 011011101101s 83 0 3 4 0 5 3 0110111011110s 011011101100s 84 0 3 5 0 5 4 0110111011100s 011011101001s 85 0 3 6 0 5 5 0110111010110s 011011101000s 86 0 3 7 0 6 2 0110111010100s 011010111101s 87 0 3 8 0 6 3 0110101111110s 011010111100s 88 0 3 9 0 6 4 0110101111100s 011010111001s 89 0 4 2 0 7 2 0110101110110s 011010111000s 90 0 4 3 0 7 3 0110101110100s 011010101101s 91 0 4 4 0 7 4 0110101011110s 011010101100s 92 0 4 5 0 8 2 0110101011100s 011010101001s 93 0 5 2 0 8 3 0110101010110s 011010101000s 94 0 5 3 0 8 4 0110101010100s 001111111101s 95 0 5 4 0 9 2 0011111111110s 001111111100s 96 0 5 5 0 9 3 0011111111100s 001111111001s 97 0 5 6 0 9 4 0011111110110s 001111111000s 98 0 5 7 0 10 2 0011111110100s 001111101101s 99 0 5 8 0 10 3 0011111011110s 001111101100s 100 0 6 2 0 11 2 0011111011100s 001111101001s 101 0 6 3 0 12 1 0011111010110s 001111101000s 102 0 6 4 0 12 2 0011111010100s 001110111101s 103 0 7 2 0 13 1 0011101111110s 001110111100s 104 0 7 3 0 13 2 0011101111100s 001110111001s 105 0 7 4 0 14 1 0011101110110s 001110111000s 106 0 7 5 0 14 2 0011101110100s 001110101101s 107 0 7 7 0 15 1 0011101011110s 001110101100s 108 0 8 2 0 15 2 0011101011100s 001110101001s 109 0 8 3 0 16 1 0011101010110s 001110101000s 110 0 9 1 0 17 1 0011101010100s 001011111101s 111 0 9 2 0 18 1 0010111111110s 001011111100s 112 0 9 3 0 19 1 0010111111100s 001011111001s 113 0 9 4 0 20 1 0010111110110s 001011111000s 114 0 9 5 0 21 1 0010111110100s 001011101101s 115 0 10 1 0 22 1 0010111011110s 001011101100s 116 0 10 2 0 23 1 0010111011100s 001011101001s 117 0 11 1 0 24 1 0010111010110s 001011101000s 118 0 11 2 0 25 1 0010111010100s 001010111101s 119 0 12 1 0 26 1 0010101111110s 001010111100s 120 0 13 1 0 27 1 0010101111100s 001010111001s 121 0 14 1 0 30 1 0010101110110s 001010111000s 122 0 15 1 0 31 1 0010101110100s 001010101101s 123 0 16 1 0 32 1 0010101011110s 001010101100s 124 1 0 3 1 0 3 0010101011100s 001010101001s 125 1 0 4 1 0 4 0010101010110s 001010101000s 126 1 0 5 1 0 5 0010101010100s 01111111111101s 127 1 0 6 1 1 2 011111111111110s 01111111111100s 128 1 1 3 1 1 3 011111111111100s 01111111111001s 129 1 1 4 1 2 2 011111111110110s 01111111111000s 130 1 1 5 1 2 3 011111111110100s 01111111101101s 131 1 1 6 1 3 2 011111111011110s 01111111101100s 132 1 2 2 1 4 2 011111111011100s 01111111101001s 133 1 2 3 1 5 2 011111111010110s 01111111101000s 134 1 3 2 1 6 2 011111111010100s 01111110111101s 135 1 3 3 1 7 2 011111101111110s 01111110111100s 136 1 4 2 1 8 2 011111101111100s 01111110111001s 137 1 5 2 1 9 2 011111101110110s 01111110111000s 138 1 5 3 1 10 2 011111101110100s 01111110101101s 139 1 6 2 1 11 2 011111101011110s 01111110101100s 140 1 6 3 1 12 2 011111101011100s 01111110101001s 141 1 7 2 1 13 2 011111101010110s 01111110101000s 142 1 7 3 1 15 1 011111101010100s 01111011111101s 143 1 8 2 1 16 1 011110111111110s 01111011111100s 144 1 9 2 1 17 1 011110111111100s 01111011111001s 145 1 9 3 1 18 1 011110111110110s 01111011111000s 146 1 10 2 1 19 1 011110111110100s 01111011101101s 147 1 11 2 1 20 1 011110111011110s 01111011101100s 148 1 11 3 1 21 1 011110111011100s 01111011101001s 149 1 12 2 1 22 1 011110111010110s 01111011101000s 150 1 13 2 1 23 1 011110111010100s 01111010111101s 151 1 13 3 1 24 1 011110101111110s 01111010111100s 152 1 13 4 1 25 1 011110101111100s 01111010111001s 153 1 14 1 1 26 1 011110101110110s 01111010111000s 154 1 14 2 1 27 1 011110101110100s 01111010101101s 155 1 15 1 1 28 1 011110101011110s 01111010101100s 156 1 16 1 1 29 1 011110101011100s 01111010101001s 157 1 17 1 1 30 1 011110101010110s 01111010101000s 158 1 18 1 1 31 1 011110101010100s 01101111111101s 159 1 19 1 1 32 1 011011111111110s 01101111111100s 160 1 20 1 1 33 1 011011111111100s 01101111111001s 161 1 21 1 1 34 1 011011111110110s 01101111111000s 162 1 22 1 1 35 1 011011111110100s 01101111101101s 163 1 23 1 1 36 1 011011111011110s 01101111101100s 164 1 24 1 1 37 1 011011111011100s 01101111101001s 165 1 25 1 1 38 1 011011111010110s 01101111101000s 166 1 26 1 1 39 1 011011111010100s 01101110111101s 167 1 27 1 1 40 1 011011101111110s 01101110111100s 168 1 28 1 1 45 1 011011101111100s 01101110111001s 169 1 30 1 1 46 1 011011101110110s 01101110111000s

TABLE 8 RVLCs for the Motion Vector Data Absolute Value of Motion Vector Component (Vertical or RVLC with k = 1 RVLC with k = 2 Horizontal) code length code length  0 01  2 001  3  1 101s  4 01s  3  2 111s  4 1010s  5  3 10001s  6 1011s  5  4 10011s  6 1110s  5  5 11001s  6 1111s  5  6 11011s  6 100010s  7  7 1000001s  8 100011s  7  8 1000011s  8 100110s  7  9 1001001s  8 100111s  7 10 1001011s  8 110010s  7 11 1100001s  8 110011s  7 12 1100011s  8 110110s  7 13 1101001s  8 110111s  7 14 1101011s  8 10000010s  9 15 100000001s 10 10000011s  9 16 100000011s 10 10000110s  9 17 100001001s 10 10000111s  9 18 100001011s 10 10010010s  9 19 100100001s 10 10010011s  9 20 100100011s 10 10010110s  9 21 100101001s 10 10010111s  9 22 100101011s 10 11000010s  9 23 110000001s 10 11000011s  9 24 110000011s 10 11000110s  9 25 110001001s 10 11000111s  9 26 110001011s 10 11010010s  9 27 110100001s 10 11010011s  9 28 110100011s 10 11010110s  9 29 110101001s 10 11010111s  9 30 110101011s 10 1000000011s 11 31 10000000001s 12 1000000011s 11 32 10000000011s 12 1000000110s 11 33 10000001001s 12 1000000111s 11 34 10000001011s 12 1000010010s 11 35 10000100001s 12 1000010011s 11 36 10000100011s 12 1000010110s 11 37 10000101001s 12 1000010111s 11 38 10000101011s 12 1001000010s 11 39 10010000001s 12 1001000011s 11 40 10010000011s 12 1001000110s 11 41 10010001001s 12 1001000111s 11 42 10010001011s 12 1001010010s 11 43 10010100001s 12 1001010011s 11 44 10010100011s 12 1001010110s 11 45 10010101001s 12 1001010111s 11 46 10010101011s 12 1100000011s 11 47 11000000001s 12 1100000011s 11 48 11000000011s 12 1100000110s 11 49 11000001001s 12 1100000111s 11 50 11000001011s 12 1100010010s 11 51 11000100001s 12 1100010011s 11 52 11000100011s 12 1100010110s 11 53 11000101001s 12 1100010111s 11 54 11000101011s 12 1101000010s 11 55 11010000001s 12 1101000011s 11 56 11010000011s 12 1101000110s 11 57 11010001001s 12 1101000111s 11 58 11010001011s 12 1101010010s 11 59 11010100001s 12 1101010011s 11 60 11010100011s 12 1101010110s 11 61 11010101001s 12 0101010111s 11 62 11010101011s 12 100000000011s 13 63 1000000000001s 14 100000000011s 13 64 1000000000011s 14 100000000110s 13 65 1000000001001s 14 100000000111s 13 66 1000000001011s 14 100000010010s 13 67 1000000100001s 14 100000010011s 13 68 1000000100011s 14 100000010110s 13 69 1000000101001s 14 100000010111s 13 70 1000000101011s 14 100001000010s 13 71 1000010000001s 14 100001000011s 13 72 1000010000011s 14 100001000110s 13 73 1000010001001s 14 100001000111s 13 74 1000010001011s 14 100001010010s 13 75 1000010100001s 14 100001010011s 13 76 1000010100011s 14 100001010110s 13 77 1000010101001s 14 100001010111s 13 78 1000010101011s 14 100100000011s 13 79 1001000000001s 14 100100000011s 13 80 1001000000011s 14 100100000110s 13 81 1001000001001s 14 100100000111s 13 82 1001000001011s 14 100100010010s 13 83 1001000100001s 14 100100010011s 13 84 1001000100011s 14 100100010110s 13 85 1001000101001s 14 100100010111s 13 86 1001000101011s 14 100101000010s 13 87 1001010000001s 14 100101000011s 13 88 1001010000011s 14 100101000110s 13 89 1001010001001s 14 100101000111s 13 90 1001010001011s 14 100101000111s 13 91 1001010100001s 14 100101010011s 13 92 1001010100011s 14 100101010011s 13 93 1001010101001s 14 100101010111s 13 94 1001010101011s 14 110000000011s 13 95 1100000000001s 14 110000000011s 13 96 1100000000011s 14 110000000110s 13 97 1100000001001s 14 110000000111s 13 98 1100000001011s 14 110000010010s 13 99 1100000100001s 14 110000010011s 13 100  1100000100011s 14 110000010110s 13 101  1100000101001s 14 110000010111s 13 102  1100000101011s 14 110001000010s 13 103  1100010000001s 14 110001000011s 13 104  1100010000011s 14 110001000110s 13 105  1100010001001s 14 110001000111s 13 106  1100010001011s 14 110001010010s 13 107  1100010100001s 14 110001010011s 13 108  1100010100011s 14 110001010110s 13 109  1100010101001s 14 110001010111s 13 110  1100010101011s 14 110100000001s 13 111  1101000000001s 14 110100000011s 13 112  1101000000011s 14 110100000110s 13 113  1101000001001s 14 110100000111s 13 114  1101000001011s 14 110100010010s 13 115  1101000100001s 14 110100010011s 13 116  1001000100011s 14 110100010110s 13 117  1001000101001s 14 110100010111s 13 118  1001000101011s 14 110101000010s 13 119  1001010000001s 14 110101000011s 13 120  1001010000011s 14 110101000110s 13 121  1001010001001s 14 110101000111s 13 122  1001010001011s 14 110101010010s 13 123  1001010100001s 14 110101010011s 13 124  1001010100011s 14 110101010110s 13 125  1001010101001s 14 110101010111s 13 126  1001010101011s 14 10000000000010s 15 127  100000000000001s 16 10000000000011s 15

Alternative RVLCs and Uses

The foregoing preferred embodiment used preferred embodiment RVLCs within a preferred embodiment syntax in which the motion data was partitioned into header data and motion vector data and separated by a Header Resynchronization Word. The preferred embodiment RVLCs can also be used with the data partitioning as in FIG. 6a by using the codes of Table 7 for the DCT data (DCT1, DCT2, . . . DCTn) of FIG. 6c.

Further, an RVLC can be used to code the CBPY plus DQUANT fields.

An alternative preferred embodiment uses the RVLC of Table 8 for the motion vector data without also using the separated header data and header resynchronization word.

Lastly, for other resynchronization markers, other RVLCs can be made in analogous fashions. For example, following Tables 9-11 are other versions of foregoing Tables 4 and 7-8.

TABLE 9 RVLC for COD + MCBPC for INTER coded video packets Proposed RVLC for Combined COD + MCBPC MB CBPC Codeword Length Index Type (56) (Combined) (Bits)  0 — — 1  1  1 0 00 00  2  2 0 01 0110  4  3 0 10 01110  5  4 0 11 010010  6  5 1 00 011110  6  6 1 01 0111110  7  7 1 10 0100010  7  8 1 11 0101010  7  9 2 00 01111110  8 10 2 01 01000010  8 11 2 10 01011010  8 12 2 11 011111110  9 13 3 00 010000010  9 14 3 01 0101101010 11 15 3 10 0111111110 10 16 3 11 0100000010 10 17 4 00 0101111010 10 18 4 01 0100110010 10 19 4 10 01111111110 11 20 4 11 01000000010 11 21 Stuffing — 01011111010 11

TABLE 10 RVLCs for the DCT Coefficients. The INTRA column shall be used for INTRA luminance and the INTER column for INTER and INTRA chrominance and INTER luminance Intra Inter Sample Code when Sample Code when Index Last Run Level Last Run Level k = 1 k = 2  0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0s 00s  1 0 0 2 0 1 1 101s 01s  2 0 0 0 0 0 0 1111 10101 ESCAPE ESCAPE  3 0 0 3 0 0 2 10001s 1011s  4 0 0 4 0 0 3 10011s 1110s  5 0 0 5 0 1 2 11001s 1111s  6 0 1 1 0 2 1 11011s 100010s  7 0 1 2 0 3 1 1000001s 100011s  8 0 2 1 0 4 1 1000011s 100110s  9 1 0 1 1 0 1 1001001s 100111s 10 0 0 6 0 0 4 1001011s 110010s 11 0 0 7 0 0 5 1100001s 110011s 12 0 0 8 0 0 6 1100011s 110110s 13 0 0 9 0 0 7 1101001s 110111s 14 0 0 10 0 1 3 1101011s 10000010s 15 0 0 11 0 1 4 100000001s 10000011s 16 0 1 3 0 2 2 100000011s 10000110s 17 0 1 4 0 3 2 100001001s 10000111s 18 0 1 5 0 4 2 100001011s 10010010s 19 0 2 2 0 5 1 100100001s 10010011s 20 0 3 1 0 5 2 100100011s 10010110s 21 0 3 2 0 6 1 100101001s 10010111s 22 0 4 1 0 7 1 100101011s 11000010s 23 0 5 1 0 8 1 110000001s 11000011s 24 0 6 1 0 9 1 110000011s 11000110s 25 0 7 1 0 10 1 110001001s 11000111s 26 0 8 1 0 11 1 110001011s 11010010s 27 1 0 2 1 0 2 110100001s 11010011s 28 1 1 1 1 1 1 110100011s 11010110s 29 1 1 2 1 2 1 110101001s 11010111s 30 1 2 1 1 3 1 110101011s 1000000010s 31 1 3 1 1 4 1 10000000001s 1000000011s 32 1 4 1 1 5 1 10000000011s 1000000110s 33 1 5 1 1 6 1 10000001001s 1000000111s 34 1 6 1 1 7 1 10000001011s 1000010010s 35 1 7 1 1 8 1 10000100001s 1000010011s 36 1 8 1 1 9 1 10000100011s 1000010110s 37 1 9 1 1 10 1 10000101001s 1000010111s 38 1 10 1 1 11 1 10000101011s 1001000010s 39 1 11 1 1 12 1 10010000001s 1001000011s 40 1 12 1 1 13 1 10010000011s 1001000110s 41 1 13 1 1 14 1 10010001001s 1001000111s 42 0 0 12 0 0 8 10010001011s 1001010010s 43 0 0 13 0 0 9 10010100001s 1001010011s 44 0 0 14 0 0 10 10010100011s 1001010110s 45 0 0 15 0 0 11 10010101001s 1001010111s 46 0 0 16 0 0 12 10010101011s 1100000010s 47 0 0 17 0 0 13 11000000001s 1100000011s 48 0 0 18 0 0 14 11000000011s 1100000110s 49 0 0 19 0 0 15 11000001001s 1100000111s 50 0 0 20 0 0 16 11000001011s 1100010010s 51 0 0 21 0 0 17 11000100001s 1100010011s 52 0 0 22 0 0 18 11000100011s 1100010110s 53 0 0 23 0 0 19 11000101001s 1100010111s 54 0 0 24 0 0 20 11000101011s 1101000010s 55 0 0 25 0 0 21 11010000001s 1101000011s 56 0 0 26 0 0 22 11010000011s 1101000110s 57 0 0 27 0 0 23 11010001001s 1101000111s 58 0 0 28 0 0 24 11010001011s 1101010010s 59 0 0 29 0 0 25 11010100001s 1101010011s 60 0 0 30 0 0 26 11010100011s 1101010110s 61 0 0 31 0 0 27 11010101001s 1101010111s 62 0 0 32 0 1 5 11010101011s 100000000010s 63 0 0 33 0 1 6 1000000000001s 100000000011s 64 0 0 34 0 1 7 1000000000011s 100000000110s 65 0 1 6 0 1 8 1000000001001s 100000000111s 66 0 1 7 0 1 9 1000000001011s 100000010010s 67 0 1 8 0 1 10 1000000100001s 100000010011s 68 0 1 9 0 1 11 1000000100011s 100000010110s 69 0 1 10 0 1 12 1000000101001s 100000010111s 70 0 1 11 0 2 3 1000000101011s 100001000010s 71 0 1 12 0 2 4 1000010000001s 100001000011s 72 0 1 13 0 2 5 1000010000011s 100001000110s 73 0 1 14 0 2 6 1000010001001s 100001000111s 74 0 1 15 0 2 7 1000010001011s 100001010010s 75 0 1 16 0 2 8 1000010100001s 100001010011s 76 0 2 3 0 3 3 1000010100011s 100001010110s 77 0 2 4 0 3 4 1000010101001s 100001010111s 78 0 2 5 0 3 5 1000010101011s 100100000010s 79 0 2 6 0 3 6 1001000000001s 100100000011s 80 0 2 7 0 4 3 1001000000011s 100100000110s 81 0 2 8 0 4 4 1001000001001s 100100000111s 82 0 3 3 0 4 5 1001000001011s 100100010010s 83 0 3 4 0 5 3 1001000100001s 100100010011s 84 0 3 5 0 5 4 1001000100011s 100100010110s 85 0 3 6 0 5 5 1001000101001s 100100010111s 86 0 3 7 0 6 2 1001000101011s 100101000010s 87 0 3 8 0 6 3 1001010000001s 100101000011s 88 0 3 9 0 6 4 1001010000011s 100101000110s 89 0 4 2 0 7 2 1001010001001s 100101000111s 90 0 4 3 0 7 3 1001010001011s 100101010010s 91 0 4 4 0 7 4 1001010100001s 100101010011s 92 0 4 5 0 8 2 1001010100011s 100101010110s 93 0 5 2 0 8 3 1001010101001s 100101010111s 94 0 5 3 0 8 4 1001010101011s 110000000010s 95 0 5 4 0 9 2 1100000000001s 110000000011s 96 0 5 5 0 9 3 1100000000011s 110000000110s 97 0 5 6 0 9 4 1100000001001s 110000000111s 98 0 5 7 0 10 2 1100000001011s 110000010010s 99 0 5 8 0 10 3 1100000100001s 110000010011s 100  0 6 2 0 11 2 1100000100011s 110000010110s 101  0 6 3 0 12 1 1100000101001s 110000010111s 102  0 6 4 0 12 2 1100000101011s 110001000010s 103  0 7 2 0 13 1 1100010000001s 110001000011s 104  0 7 3 0 13 2 1100010000011s 110001000110s 105  0 7 4 0 14 1 1100010001001s 110001000111s 106  0 7 5 0 14 2 1100010001011s 110001010010s 107  0 7 7 0 15 1 1100010100001s 110001010011s 108  0 8 2 0 15 2 1100010100011s 110001010110s 109  0 8 3 0 16 1 1100010101001s 110001010111s 110  0 9 1 0 17 1 1100010101011s 110100000010s 111  0 9 2 0 18 1 1101000000001s 110100000011s 112  0 9 3 0 19 1 1101000000011s 110100000110s 113  0 9 4 0 20 1 1101000001001s 110100000111s 114  0 9 5 0 21 1 1101000001011s 110100010010s 115  0 10 1 0 22 1 1101000100001s 110100010011s 116  0 10 2 0 23 1 1101000100011s 110100010110s 117  0 11 1 0 24 1 1101000100001s 110100010111s 118  0 11 2 0 25 1 1101000101011s 110101000010s 119  0 12 1 0 26 1 1101010000001s 110101000011s 120  0 13 1 0 27 1 1101010000011s 110101000110s 121  0 14 1 0 30 1 1101010001001s 110101000111s 122  0 15 1 0 31 1 1101010001011s 110101010010s 123  0 16 1 0 32 1 1101010100001s 110101010011s 124  1 0 3 1 0 3 1101010100011s 110101010110s 125  1 0 4 1 0 4 1101010101001s 110101010111s 126  1 0 5 1 0 5 1101010101011s 100000000000010s 127  1 0 6 1 1 2 100000000000001s 10000000000011s 128  1 1 3 1 1 3 100000000000011s 10000000000110s 129  1 1 4 1 2 2 100000000001001s 10000000000111s 130  1 1 5 1 2 3 100000000001011s 10000000010110s 131  1 1 6 1 3 2 100000000100001s 10000000010011s 132  1 2 2 1 4 2 100000000100011s 10000000010110s 133  1 2 3 1 5 2 100000000101001s 10000000010111s 134  1 3 2 1 6 2 100000000101011s 10000001000010s 135  1 3 3 1 7 2 100000010000001s 10000001000011s 136  1 4 2 1 8 2 100000010000011s 10000001000110s 137  1 5 2 1 9 2 100000010001001s 10000001000111s 138  1 5 3 1 10 2 100000010001011s 10000001010010s 139  1 6 2 1 11 2 100000010100001s 10000001010011s 140  1 6 3 1 12 2 100000010100011s 10000001010110s 141  1 7 2 1 13 2 100000010101001s 10000001010111s 142  1 7 3 1 15 1 100000010101011s 10000100000010s 143  1 8 2 1 16 1 100001000000001s 10000100000011s 144  1 9 2 1 17 1 100001000000011s 10000100000110s 145  1 9 3 1 18 1 100001000001001s 10000100000111s 146  1 10 2 1 19 1 100001000001011s 10000100010010s 147  1 11 2 1 20 1 100001000100001s 10000100010011s 148  1 11 3 1 21 1 100001000100011s 10000100010110s 149  1 12 2 1 22 1 100001000101001s 10000100010111s 150  1 13 3 1 24 1 100001000101011s 10000101000010s 151  1 13 3 1 24 1 100001010000001s 10000101000011s 152  1 13 4 1 25 1 100001010000011s 10000101000110s 153  1 14 1 1 26 1 100001010001001s 10000101000111s 154  1 14 2 1 27 1 100001010001011s 10000101010010s 155  1 15 1 1 28 1 100001010100001s 10000101010011s 156  1 16 1 1 29 1 100001010100011s 10000101010110s 157  1 17 1 1 30 1 100001010101001s 10000101010111s 158  1 18 1 1 31 1 100001010101011s 10010000000010s 159  1 19 1 1 32 1 100100000000001s 10010000000011s 160  1 20 1 1 33 1 100100000000011s 10010000000110s 161  1 21 1 1 34 1 100100000001001s 10010000000111s 162  1 22 1 1 35 1 100100000001011s 10010000010010s 163  1 23 1 1 36 1 100100000100001s 10010000010011s 164  1 24 1 1 37 1 100100000100011s 10010000010110s 165  1 25 1 1 38 1 100100000101001s 10010000010111s 166  1 26 1 1 39 1 100100000101011s 10010001000010s 167  1 27 1 1 40 1 100100010000001s 10010001000011s 168  1 28 1 1 45 1 100100010000011s 10010001000110s 169  1 30 1 1 46 1 100100010001001s 10010001000111s

TABLE 11 RVLCs for the Motion Vector Data Absolute Value of Motion Vector Component (Vertical or RVLC with k = 1 RVLC with k = 2 Horizontal) code length code length  0 00  2 000  3  1 101s  4 01s  3  2 111s  4 1010s  5  3 10001s  6 1011s  5  4 10011s  6 1110s  5  5 11001s  6 1111s  5  6 11011s  6 100010s  7  7 1000001s  8 100011s  7  8 1000011s  8 100110s  7  9 1001001s  8 100111s  7 10 1001011s  8 110010s  7 11 1100001s  8 110011s  7 12 1100011s  8 110110s  7 13 1101001s  8 110111s  7 14 1101011s  8 10000010s  9 15 100000001s 10 10000011s  9 16 100000011s 10 10000110s  9 17 100001001s 10 10000111s  9 18 100001011s 10 10010010s  9 19 100100001s 10 10010011s  9 20 100100011s 10 10010110s  9 21 100101001s 10 10010111s  9 22 100101011s 10 11000010s  9 23 110000001s 10 11000011s  9 24 110000011s 10 11000110s  9 25 110001001s 10 11000111s  9 26 110001011s 10 11010010s  9 27 110100001s 10 11010011s  9 28 110100011s 10 11010110s  9 29 110101001s 10 11010111s  9 30 110101011s 10 1000000011s 11 31 10000000001s 12 1000000011s 11 32 10000000011s 12 1000000110s 11 33 10000001001s 12 1000000111s 11 34 10000001011s 12 1000010010s 11 35 10000100001s 12 1000010011s 11 36 10000100011s 12 1000010110s 11 37 10000101001s 12 1000010111s 11 38 10000101011s 12 1001000010s 11 39 10010000001s 12 1001000011s 11 40 10010000011s 12 1001000110s 11 41 10010001001s 12 1001000111s 11 42 10010001011s 12 1001010010s 11 43 10010100001s 12 1001010011s 11 44 10010100011s 12 1001010110s 11 45 10010101001s 12 1001010111s 11 46 10010101011s 12 1100000011s 11 47 11000000001s 12 1100000011s 11 48 11000000011s 12 1100000110s 11 49 11000001001s 12 1100000111s 11 50 11000001011s 12 1100010010s 11 51 11000100001s 12 1100010011s 11 52 11000100011s 12 1100010110s 11 53 11000101001s 12 1100010111s 11 54 11000101011s 12 1101000010s 11 55 11010000001s 12 1101000011s 11 56 11010000011s 12 1101000110s 11 57 11010001001s 12 1101000111s 11 58 11010001011s 12 1101010010s 11 59 11010100001s 12 1101010011s 11 60 11010100011s 12 1101010110s 11 61 11010101001s 12 0101010111s 11 62 11010101011s 12 100000000011s 13 63 1000000000001s 14 100000000011s 13 64 1000000000011s 14 100000000110s 13 65 1000000001001s 14 100000000111s 13 66 1000000001011s 14 100000010010s 13 67 1000000100001s 14 100000010011s 13 68 1000000100011s 14 100000010110s 13 69 1000000101001s 14 100000010111s 13 70 1000000101011s 14 100001000010s 13 71 1000010000001s 14 100001000011s 13 72 1000010000011s 14 100001000110s 13 73 1000010001001s 14 100001000111s 13 74 1000010001011s 14 100001010010s 13 75 1000010100001s 14 100001010011s 13 76 1000010100011s 14 100001010110s 13 77 1000010101001s 14 100001010111s 13 78 1000010101011s 14 100100000011s 13 79 1001000000001s 14 100100000011s 13 80 1001000000011s 14 100100000110s 13 81 1001000001001s 14 100100000111s 13 82 1001000001011s 14 100100010010s 13 83 1001000100001s 14 100100010011s 13 84 1001000100011s 14 100100010110s 13 85 1001000101001s 14 100100010111s 13 86 1001000101011s 14 100101000010s 13 87 1001010000001s 14 100101000011s 13 88 1001010000011s 14 100101000110s 13 89 1001010001001s 14 100101000111s 13 90 1001010001011s 14 100101010010s 13 91 1001010100001s 14 100101010011s 13 92 1001010100011s 14 100101010110s 13 93 1001010101001s 14 100101010111s 13 94 1001010101011s 14 110000000011s 13 95 1100000000001s 14 110000000011s 13 96 1100000000011s 14 110000000110s 13 97 1100000001001s 14 110000000111s 13 98 1100000001011s 14 110000010010s 13 99 1100000100001s 14 110000010011s 13 100  1100000100011s 14 110000010110s 13 101  1100000101001s 14 110000010111s 13 102  1100000101011s 14 110001000010s 13 103  1100010000001s 14 110001000011s 13 104  1100010000011s 14 110001000110s 13 105  1100010001001s 14 110001000111s 13 106  1100010001011s 14 110001010010s 13 107  1100010100001s 14 110001010011s 13 108  1100010100011s 14 110001010110s 13 109  1100010101001s 14 110001010111s 13 110  1101000000011s 14 110100000001s 13 111  1101000000001s 14 110100000011s 13 112  1101000000011s 14 110100000110s 13 113  1101000001001s 14 110100000111s 13 114  1101000001011s 14 110100010010s 13 115  1101000100001s 14 110100010011s 13 116  1001000100011s 14 110100010110s 13 117  1001000101001s 14 110100010111s 13 118  1001000101011s 14 110101000010s 13 119  1001010000001s 14 110101000011s 13 120  1001010000011s 14 110101000110s 13 121  1001010001001s 14 110101000111s 13 122  1001010001011s 14 110101010010s 13 123  1001010100001s 14 110101010011s 13 124  1001010100011s 14 110101010110s 13 125  1001010101001s 14 110101010111s 13 126  1001010101011s 14 10000000000010s 15 127  100000000000001s 16 10000000000011s 15

Object Based Compression

The foregoing RVLCs and bitstream syntax also extends to object based compression by just including the object shape data in a field (typically preceding the motion data) and optionally with a Shape Resynchronization Word to separate shape data from motion data. 

What is claimed is:
 1. A method of decoding a compressed video bit stream packet, comprising the steps of: (a) interpreting codewords as reversible exp-Golomb type codewords; and (b) decoding in both forward and backward directions when an error is indicated.
 2. The method of claim 1, wherein: (a) portions of said packet between errors found in said forward and backward decodings are discarded.
 3. The method of claim 1, wherein: (a) said reversible exp-Golomb type code has codewords with a symmetrical prefix portion plus a suffix portion of a first length.
 4. The method of claim 1, wherein: (a) said reversible exp-Golomb type code has codewords including a portion with symmetrical odd-numbered bits.
 5. The method of claim 4, wherein: (a) said portion has the format 1x0x0x . . . x0x1, where the x's represent information bits. 